Should public libraries be homes for ingenuity?

31.12.2008

The author works as the public geek at the Takoma Park Maryland Library, and is an adjunct professor of education at American University. In high school he built a hot water solar collector from an abandoned shopping cart and hauled it up onto the roof of his house with a rope. His parents thought that was a good idea. The neighbors were not entirely thrilled with the shopping cart. On the roof. Of the house.